JackAaah

I feel what ever it takes to get our Democrat Party the voters it needs, food stamps, unending unemployment insurance, welfare...even Obamaphones. We MUST do it all....and if our Democrat Party can blame Republicans for anything....well, that's just moving forword...

GoInPeace

HA,HA,HA,HA,HA.Give me a break,When did the MDN ever write a article blameing bush for anything. The problems we have today are squarely resting on the shoulders of the republican do nothing congress.AND THATS THE TRUTH.I voted NO ON THIS,Goinpeace.

EarlyBird

This is just the tip of the iceberg. We are just getting ready to enter the era of the baby boomers massive retirement. The next 10-12 years are going to be very interesting.

As US wages stagnate, food stamp use growing fastest among workers with some college training. In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps — a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients.

Some of the change is due to demographics, such as the trend toward having fewer children. But a slow economic recovery with high unemployment, stagnant wages and an increasing gulf between low-wage and high-skill jobs also plays a big role. It suggests that government spending on the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program — twice what it cost five years ago — may not subside significantly anytime soon.

locomotive

Some of the info that I've read hasn't been false, unless I was one of the true believers.

Healthcare . gov? nbcnews . com

"Cybersecurity researchers slammed HealthCare.gov's security during a House hearing on Thursday, saying the site is still riddled with problems that could put consumers' sensitive health details at risk."

True unemployment figures? forbes . com

"But the “official” unemployment rate doesn’t count men and women like G. — discouraged workers who have settled for part-time jobs or have given up looking altogether. Tracking those individuals, under what’s called the “U-6? rate, gives a very different measure of the nation’s unemployment rate: 14.3%."

There's probably more stuff out there, but are these two sources promoting "false information" about what's happening under the current administration, headed by Pres. Obama?

MarkHighwater

The rich have never been richer and the poor keep getting poorer. The Masters of the Universe enjoy indefinite taxpayer-funded bailouts, while the social safety net for the poor is gutted on the grounds that they should “suck it up and cope.” The ruling class that engineers crushing economic inequality gathers at Davos to pretend to care about said inequality, and then promises no concrete actions to combat the crisis. Many high-income earners pay a lower effective tax rate than low-income earners, and what little progressiveness there was has now been wrung out of the tax code

MarkHighwater

You can find lots more of this Third Reich-flavored tripe by just Googling “Obama” and “Hitler.” If you broaden out your search beyond National Socialism to include all forms of violent white supremacy, you’ll find even more, including AIG CEO Robert Benmosche declaring that anger over his bailed-out company’s bonuses was “just as bad” as lynchings of African Americans in the Jim Crow South. And if you go one step further and look for all the claims that the rich are oppressed, you will find a seemingly endless supply of statements to that effect